Defining and deploying data and object packages

Migrating data and code from one environment to another, such as from QA to production, is a time consuming process. Deployment Application provides a single method for promoting definitions and data effectively and reliably across environments.

The following diagram represents a process in the Deployment Application utility:

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Related topics

Accessing-the-AR-System-Deployment-Management-console

The Deployment Application plug-in provides the following capabilities:

  • Import and export definitions and data
  • Call the Analyzer module to validate that a package meets the required standard
  • Add a checksum to the package if the package meets the requirements
  • Verify the checksum for a package
  • Encapsulate the contents of a package into a single zip file
  • Extract the contents of a package from a single zip file.

Perform the following tasks by using the Deployment Application:

Task

Action

Reference

1.

Access the AR System Deployment Management console with appropriate permissions.

2. 

Deployment package is automatically created when a package deployment or a rollback is triggered in the AR System Deployment Management console. 

3. 

Define a package with workflow object definitions, data, and object that you want to deploy in different environments.

4. 

(Optional) Define a precheck qualification to validate preconditions for deployment, such as the version, or to validate content, such as a form.

5. 

Validate a package with specified set of rules.

6.

Import or export the package across environments by using the AR System Deployment Management console.

7. 

(Optional) After a package is successfully deployed, archive the package by using the AR System Deployment Management console.

Alternatively, you can use a command-line interface (CLI) to promote data and definitions across development, QA, and production environments.

For more information, see Building-and-deploying-packages-by-using-the-CLI

However, you must manually move the following types of objects between environments:

  • Groups
  • Roles
  • Distributed Pool

 

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